Map of Malaysia [Source: www.bugbog.com]
They discriminated us, they made us pay, they made us suffer because of one thing.. We were not Muslims. For those of you out there who are Muslims, I apologize for generalizing but they are true facts in Malaysia where Islamic religion takes its roots..They are extremists, they are ruthless and unkind towards fellow humans. They treated us like animals... They didn't understand us, they think we went there because we wanted to but we didn't.. we went there because we 'had' to.. There was no other way to flee from persecution. If we wanted to live, we had to flee to Malaysia from Thailand. The religious toleration rate in that country is 1.1%. The Malaysian police are also corrupted officials who threaten us to pay them money or will send us to jail whenever they saw us.
I worked in a construction site in downtown, Kuala Lumpur (Capital City of Malaysia) which has the famous twin tower in southeast Asia. I worked under the supervision of a Islamic Malaysian who tormented me with more work than his fellow Malaysian citizens. He will assign me to do things with his feet pointing here and there... It was very intimidating but I needed the money, and with my status I was considered lucky to be offered a employment opportunity.... My job was to carry bricks up and down the stairs of a 20 story building in a 100 degrees Fahrenheit heat, in time I grew weak, I didn't have enough food to eat, nor the money to buy them...(to be continued on blog#7)
(This is how thin and malnourished I was back in Malaysia.)
I think that what you've gone through makes you an amazing person. You've had to live through that because you had no other choice, and you've still managed to make it through it and that is an admirable thing.
ReplyDeleteWhat it's crazy, just by looking at you in class i wouldn't have known you went through so much. I habeve so much respect for you.
ReplyDeleteWowwww in class you're always nice and eveything I would enver have guessed you went through something like that.
ReplyDeleteWhat you have gone through is terrible. It is terrible how some of the world is. I never really think about how lucky we are to live how we do here, but we really are.
ReplyDeleteWhen you talk about Kuala Lampur like this, it makes me remember the time my friend wanted me to go with her for a summer. I thought it was so great the way she talked of it since it was her home town. But you give me another perspective.
ReplyDeleteThat's crazy. Couldn't imagine what you had to go through.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe that Malaysia is that crazy because I actually wanted to go there but now I might have to rethink about going there or not.
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